Russell Wilson is the latest NFL star to set his future terms

Could it be that Antonio Brown’s power play with the Steelers has emboldened other NFL stars to press the issue to get the contracts and the playing situations they desire? It sure seems that way with how Russell Wilson’s contract standoff played out. At the outset of this month, Wilson imposed an April 15 deadline to negotiate a new long-term deal with the Seahawks. His current contract was set to end after the 2019 season. According to Peter King, Wilson indicated to Seattle’s front office that if a long-term deal wasn’t hashed out by the deadline, the 30-year-old quarterback would be unwilling to negotiate another one with the team at any point. Though he was willing to play under the franchise tag if necessary, Wilson made it clear this was the Seahawks’ last chance to lock down the face of the franchise long term.  Seattle wasn’t willing to call his bluff. Wilson was forceful without resorting to some of the antagonism that Brown used to extricate himself from Pittsburgh. The result was more or less the

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